AVR may refer to any of the following: 1. Short for Automatic Voltage Regulator, AVR is a hardware device used to maintain a voltage to electronic devices. 2. Short for Automatic Voice Recognition, AVR is the ability of a computer or other electronic device to identify and understand human voice. 3.
The plant is indigenous to South America and is said to originate from the area between southern Brazil and Paraguay; however, little is known about the origin of the domesticated pineapple (Pickersgill, 1976). M.S. Bertoni (1919) considered the ParanÃ¡âParaguay River drainages to be the place of origin of A. comosus.
The word pineapple in English was first recorded in 1398, when it was used to describe the reproductive organs of conifer trees. When European explorers discovered the tropical fruit they called them pineapples. The term pineapple or pinappel in Middle English didnât appear in print until 1664.